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Georgia DUI Due to Prescribed OTC Medications


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Many citizens now take medication for a variety of conditions. Including anti-anxiety medications and sleep medications, such as Ambien. These medications can have a dramatic effect on your ability to drive a car. Of course some of them clearly say, “don't take this except at night, when in bed.” There are other medications that say, “Use caution when using machinery.” What you need to know about these medications is that if you're in a car accident involving injury or death to anyone and they take a blood test (sometimes a blood and urine test) and you have a positive reading for either the drug or the metabolites (which is the burn off product of that drug) you may find yourself charged with driving under the influence of drugs even though they're prescribed.

It's important to know that if you are within the therapeutic dose and it's not the type of drug that says don’t drive at all, you should be OK. Don't trust that because medications can sometimes mix with each other. You may have taken your prescribed medication and an antihistamine that the combination left you're impaired and that may have been what caused the accident, at least that’s what the state is going to try and prove. If you get charged with this offense you need to come from someone who understands the synergistic effects. That is the multiplying effect of these drugs and how to bring in experts to refute that claim.

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